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HebrewH3615Verb

כָּלָה

ka.lah

190Occurrences
H3615Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)

a primitive root;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
finish 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be complete, be at an end 1a2) to be completed, be finished 1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled 1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense) 1a5) to be spent, be used up 1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail 1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish 1b2) to complete (a period of time) 1b3) to finish (doing a thing) 1b4) to make an end, end 1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass 1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought) 1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease 1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend 1b9) to destroy, exterminate 1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

H:V

Full Description

Hebrew Verb

Occurrences

כָּלָה appears 190 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Chronicles
16
Ezk
16
Genesis
16
Psalms
14
1 Kings
12
Isaiah
12
Jeremiah
12
Job
11

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 16:2BSB

When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 7:11BSB

When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,

Ezk 20:13BSB

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Isaiah 16:4BSB

Let my fugitives stay with you;be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.”When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased,and the oppressors have vanished from the land,

Lamentations 2:11BSB

My eyes fail from weeping;I am churning within.My heart is poured out in griefover the destruction of the daughter of my people,because children and infants faintin the streets of the city.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.